† hexagony Obs. rare—1.
[ad. late L. hexagōnium (Ambrose), by-form of hexagōnum hexagon.]
A hexagonal structure, as the cell of a bee.
| 1655 Bramhall Disc. agst. Hobbes iii. Wks. 1844 IV. 52 When I read in St. Ambrose of their [bees'] ‘hexagonies’ or sexangular cells. |